Why attack Iraq?

Question

Here are my views on it, and I was wonder what other people thought.

1. Iraq held less threats then Iran/N. Korea, while there was speculation that Iraq had WMDs it is common knowledge that Iran/N. Korea do.

2. With the idea of a lasting ground war, tribal factions, religious differences, how did the administration, ignore (?) or did not take into consideration that a civil war may insure. (Pentagon screened the movie "Battle of Algiers" Before the war started... if you have not seen it, check it out)

3. Iraq was contained. While it abused its own people and the food for oil program, it had no where to go, no terrorist network. If you use the argument "well they were bad people" then why no help out those nations that truly felt the oppression of genocide.

4 I have no problem with the war in Afghanistan. there was a link between their actions (or lack there of) but Iraq just seemed personal and vindictive.

So what is your view?

Answer 1

bush is a big oil man and he just wanted more money in his pocket at americas expence and he was willing to kill our american troops for it he is just a total idiot!!!!



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Answer 2

I figure that Iraq was given as a win ~ win situation. I mean imagine if it had gone just like the administration dreamed it would. Saddam's record was bad he was thought of as an evil dictator. Iraqis really wanted him gone.


It had the oppurtunity of doing very little and seeming like you were doing something big. If it was finished now we would be hearing things like, this was a step in democracizing the middle east, a step in getting rid of the training facilities of terrorist, such bull hockey but again doing little to seem great. It also would have been a very good flex of muscle had it work.

There is also the threat or message to other oil nations that America had teeth in which they sometimes use to bite. The main problem wasn't the war it was the pacifying. The administration never seem to go for the heart of the people. It was just hey we got rid of him you should be happy. Not like ok we got rid of him here are some of the services we are going to temporary set up. Let's do some cultural exchanges and hey those insurgents we want to alienate them as far as possible from the real Iraqis. Making them seem adnormal and bearing down and making an example of how both the Americans and real Iraqis just aren't going to tolerate them.

I would have done a p.r. blitzs right down to the mickey mouse ears. Security was also a big problem. There were ways that could have solved it and let ordinary Iraqis feel that it was in their hands.

The administration had a short window in which to take control of the aftermath of victory and they bungled it. They dropped the football in the end zone and lost. Now we will be dealing with people who cannot afford to trust us, and a very unstable middle east. We lost the ability to come out of this the good guys. Now it has become a numbers game. One in which we are losing.

I never became anyones friend because I knew they had a gun aimed at me. I was a little more aware of their presence though and loathe to see the person anywhere near me.

Answer 3

I am neither an arab or a muslim or jew or even an american, so my answer is going to be unbiased.

Saddam was a sunni , he was a supporter of sunni terrorrism(al qaeda)

he was rich enough to support them.

Iraq is the only country where the a mjority is ruled by a minority and that too in a cruel way

Iraq is the hub of all unstable organisation in middle east
kurdish rebels for turks, previous sympathizers of nassarallah

the middle east in itself is a very trechrous area , altjhough all the countries call them self muslim brothers but the there is a great shia and sunni divide with each country having its own alliance

before USA invaded iraq the area was ruled by sunnis of yemen , saudi, jordan and egypt
now with iraq gone their is a struggle as shia is becoming powerfull.

Iraq was never an innocent country , israel had to do premptive strikes at osirak because they stumbled over documents of saddams plan to use them ...........can you guess who sold the documents to mussad







Iranian agents
they knew that once saddam is through with israel he would beat the **** out of iran, he anyways did everyhting possible to destroy them. although islam is a peacefull religion unfortunatly its followers are not ...... its sad to say but I dont think iraq is going to peacefull apparently because of the population structure but I guess a united iraq is the best bet for the world.

Answer 4

Tony Blair did not attack Iraq even with the reality that he did help the U.S. military efforts in that area. yet that would not recommend that London merits to be attacked stop dishonestly framing the problem! So do you imagine if Britain had thoroughly stayed out of Iraq, there should be no threat of terrorists attacks? The terrorists use the area in Iraq as a convent excuse for his or her moves . do not you imagine they could basically arise with yet another justification(of their minds) for attacking western aims if Iraq were left on my own after 9-11? in case you overview the lengthy record of terrorist attacks via radical Muslims in the perfect 40 years, you comprehend that we've been supposedly "pissing" them off for a lengthy time period. If this does finally end up to be a foiled terrorist attack, it ought to were o.k. on the problem of Rushdie being knighted or an attempt to spoil the impending Princess Diana appropriate social gathering. bear in mind 2 years in the past, the attacks on the London buses and subways handed off the day after London stumbled on out it replaced into chosen to host the Olympics. .

Answer 5

Saddam played games with the UN and acted like he was hiding something. This was right after 9/11 so we were on high alert. Basically we called his bluff. We knew he had used weapons on his own people in the past. We wanted to take out a future threat.

I agree that our government has made lots of mistakes with this war. Yes, we should have prepared for the Shiites and Sunni's and been better prepared with that mess. Yes, we needed more troops, etc.

It was still the right choice at the time and now we have the consequences of that decision. We can't take out a leader and leave the country with no government and let them have a civil war. We would end up with another crazy Islam extremist in control and the Iraqi citizens would hate us for leaving. We need Iraq as an ally as we get ready to fight more terrorists. You can't honestly believe these extremists will leave us alone if we leave Iraq. They have proclaimed that they will kill and destroy Americans and Israel. They have proclaimed war on us.

Answer 6

Well, the real reason no one will ever know...as was already stated all we know is what the government wants us to know....and I saw someone mentioned the movie Fahrenheit 9/11....well there is another called fahrenhype 9/11....it will show the complete opposite of the first....so you have to see both side and unfortunately we only have a limited view.....

Answer 7

In the first place? To depose Saddam. And whatever the govt motivation, pretty much everyone can agree that Saddam was not a nice person. Whether that gave the US any legal justification is a different story, but as a goal, at least it was concrete and achievable.

Everything after "Mission Accomplished", beyond the first few months to verify that Saddam didn't have WMDs, is an entirely different story and completely unrelated to why we went in the first place.

Answer 8

I agree with you 100%, Iraq has cost BILLIONS of dollars not to mention lives lost. I too had no problem with Afghanistan but it's time to quite being lead by fear and misinformation that's being pushed for the war in Iraq.

Answer 9

1-15 from the 19 suicide how attack USA at 11 Sep 2001came from Sudia
2- there is only 3 country in this world how support helped Taliban regime from the begining till USA attack this bad regim
Sudia ,UAE, Pakistan and these 3 countryies are illay of USA
why USA attack Iraq not these countryies ? answers is sample pre.Bush talk with God and God order him to attack Iraq (bush god hate Iraq hahaha)

Answer 10

But you see Washington doesnt call the shots - the Zionist are the real Masters and they see much benefit from destroying Iraq and Iran... its leaves Israel free to dominate and rape the Entire Mid East .... oil, water and religious sites....

The clever part is they get America and Britain to do the dirty work for them

See the method to the madness now ?

Answer 11

There are people from Iraq in the USA. Because they left their country for freedom in the USA, Sadam Hussein sent them belated Bon Voyage videos. The videos show some of their female relatives being raped and killed by Sadam's military (in retaliation for their having deserted their country). If you want to better understand why the USA is in Iraq, possibly the receiptients of those videos could share their views. I've heard all kinds of pros and cons, but the story about the videos did it for me. Of course, I haven't seen those videos. It's part of a news story, and I can't verify the authenticity of the story nor the existence of the videos. But I want to believe you would be keen on checking this out.

Another story. This one is about the husbands of two of Sadam's daughters (his son-in-laws). They came to the USA along with their wives. Sadam lured them back. The US warned that they should not return. They returned in spite of the warnings. As soon as they arrived back in Iraq, they were separated from their wives (Sadam's daughters) and never heard from again. Possibly Sadam's daughters would be able to share some views that you would find interesting.

Even though I don't know for sure whether sending US troops to Iraq was the right or wrong thing to do, I suspect it was right. But I also believe that if people are abused, they need to learn stand up for themselves. I lean toward providing them with weapons and training to defend themselves rather than sending our men and women there to do their fighting for them. But I suspect I feel that way probably because I don't understand all that's involved in fighting for freedom. Maybe it's not as simple as providing training and weapons. I'm fortunate to have been born in the USA and to be free because someone else did the fighting for me. That's why I'm not inclined to voice opposition when someone is fighting for someone else's freedom. After all, I didn't voice opposition when someone fought for mine.